Talking big numbers on the Strip

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Described as “a hard-hitting, behind the scenes account of the Bank of
England” since it gained independence in 1997, The Bank — Inside
the Bank of England is published this week. Dan Conaghan has spent the
past three years on the work, which inevitably features Sir Mervyn King
heavily.

He has even tracked down a friend of the Governor’s who was with him on a trip
to Las Vegas in the summer of 1972. Christopher Peacocke and Mervyn were
Kennedy Scholars at Harvard. They spent a few days in Vegas and then hired
an Oldsmobile to tour the Nevada desert, spending